Running Xvfb during a package build -- good idea?

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 10:38 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:

> Orthogonal to whether koji can or should let you do it, this came up in
> the context of another discussion today.  I think what we'll end up
> doing is something like:
> 
> Xvfb -displayfd 3 3>& /tmp/whatever
> 
> to give the server a way of both picking a free display number, and
> communicating it back to the launching process.  Does that sound like
> it'd work for you?

The xvfb-run helper I added to Xvfb in rawhide might also be useful for
this purpose, depending on the number of things that need to launch.

~spot